Previous Books and Reviews

(from Temple Vine "Micah Reader" columns)

2003-2004

September 2003: Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna.
October 2003: Cynthia Ozick's Messiah of Stockholm
November 2003: Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved
Dececember 2003: Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives
January 2004: Allegra Goodman's The Family Markowitz
February 2004: Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run
March 2004: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda [in connection with special adult education seminar]
April 2004: Ian Pears' The Dream of Scipio
May 2004: Joseph Roth's The Wandering Jews Review
June 2004: A.B. Yehoshua's The Liberated Bride Review

2004-2005

September 2004: Henry Roth's Call It Sleep Review
October 2004: Sherwin Nuland's Lost in America Review
November 2004: Mordechai Richler's Solomon Gursky was Here Review
December 2004: Dave von Drahle's Triangle: The Fire That Changed America Review
January 2005: Philip Roth's Patrimony Review
February 2005: Amy Wilentz's Martyrs' Crossing Review
March 2005: Madeleine Albright's Madam Secretary Review
April 2005: Amos Elon's The Pity of it All Review
May 2005: Georgio Bassini's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Review
June 2005: Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase Review

2005-2006

September 2005: I.J. Singer's The Brothers Ashkenazi Review
October 2005: Philip Roth's The Plot Against America Review
November 2005: Saul Bellow's Seize the Day Review
December 2005: Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness Review
January 2006: Isaac Bashevis Singer's In My Father's Court Review
February 2006: Nadine Gortimer's None to Accompany Me Review
March 2006: Batya Gur's Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case Review
May 2006: Roya Hakakian's Journey from the Land of No: A girhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran Review
June 2006: Aharon Appelfeld's The Story of a Life Review
2006-2007
September 2006: Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin's American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Review
October 2006: Nicole Krauss's The History of Love Review
November 2006: Aharon Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 Review
December 2006: Alan Kraut's Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" Review
January 2007: Markus Zusak's The Book Thief Review
February 2007: Thomas Cahill's The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels Review
March 2007: Janet Wallach's Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Review
April 2007: Allegra Goodman's Intuition Review
May 2007: Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer Review
June 2007: Saul Bellow's Ravelstein Review

2007-2008

September 2007: Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk Review
October 2007: Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk Review
November 2007: Orphan Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City Review
December 2007: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice Review
January 2008: Tom Reiss's The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life Review
February 2008: Norman F. Cantor's In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made Review
March 2008: Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Review

2007-2008

by Ed Grossman — last modified 12-24-2008 05:41 PM